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preseason concussions last year.

The NFL found that preseason concussions were up 73 percent from 2016 and
that most of them occurred in 11-on-11 drills conducted in practices ahead of
the first preseason games. The league is sharing data about each team’s
concussions from last year in hopes that it will, per NFL executive vice
president of health and safety initiatives Jeff Miller, “inform what clubs
do.”

There is no change to the amount of 11-on-11 work that teams can do, but
chief medical officer Dr. Allen Sills has spoken to each team in hopes of seeing
the number of concussions drop this summer.

“It’s not a matter of having five or six recidivistic clubs that we have to
discipline into line,” Sills said, via ESPN.com. “This is a leaguewide issue
where everyone has to understand it’s on all of us to work on. It might sound
trite to say, but any concussion we save is important to us. We want to put the
awareness out there … and make sure we’re making it as safe as we can.”

Sills said that there is no medical reason to think the drills coming early
in camp left players unprepared for contact. The focus is on “what behavior are
you doing and how much are you doing of it” rather than when on the calendar it
is being done.

Super Bowl champion Philadelphia will host Atlanta to kick off
the 2018 NFL season on Thursday night, Sept. 6.

Green Bay hosts Chicago in the first Sunday night matchup on Sept. 9, while
the Monday nighters on opening weekend feature the New York Jets at Detroit,
followed by the Los Angeles Rams at Oakland.

The Eagles also will play at England's home of soccer when they take on the
Jacksonville Jaguars in Week 8 at Wembley Stadium.

That's one of four international games. The other match at Wembley will be
the previous week with the Los Angeles Chargers hosting the Tennessee Titans.
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home game on Oct. 14 against Seattle.

For the third straight year, the NFL will stage a game in Mexico City: the
Rams will host Kansas City in a Week 11 Monday night game.

Thanksgiving will provide a feast of divisional games. The traditional
doubleheader in Detroit and Dallas has the Lions playing the Bears, followed by
the Redskins at the Cowboys. At night, it will be Atlanta visiting New
Orleans.

Other intriguing matchups include Cleveland, which lost all 16 games last
season, hosting archrival Pittsburgh on opening day; New England at Jacksonville
in a rematch of the AFC title game in Week 2; the Eagles and Vikings in an NFC
championship game redux in Philly on Oct. 7; and the Steelers vs. Patriots in
Pittsburgh in Week 15.

"We like to open at home in front of our great fans and this will be the
second season in a row we do it against the Steelers," Browns coach Hue Jackson
said. "We start with the best in our division."

Fox, which will do 11 Thursday night games, begins its package in Week 4 with
the Vikings at the Rams. Those contests also will be televised by NFL Network
and in Spanish on Fox Deportes. NFL Network has seven exclusive broadcasts.

Flexible scheduling in which a Sunday afternoon game can be switched to the
evening because it is a better matchup than the previously planned game will be
in use for Weeks 11-17. But two Sundays in Weeks 5-10 also can have a game
flexed to night.

In a new twist Marshon
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in Weeks 15 and 16. In Week 15, two games will be played on Saturday, Dec. 15:
Houston at the New York Jets and Cleveland at Denver, with game times of 4:30
p.m. EST and 8:20 p.m. EST to be determined. In Week 16, two of four possible
matchups will be scheduled for Saturday: Baltimore at the Chargers, Jacksonville
at Miami, the New York Giants at Indianapolis, or Washington at Tennessee. Start
times for Saturday games for Week 15 and 16 will be announced no later than
following Week 8, with the contests not chosen for Saturday to be played on
Sunday on the 16th weekend.

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it is going to be a challenging schedule," said Pat Shurmur, preparing for his
first season as Giants coach. "I don't see anything remarkable about the
schedule, but it is very challenging."

As usual, no Sunday night game has been scheduled for the last day of the
season, Dec. 30. That will be chosen after Week 16 games conclude.

The 2018 schedule has three three-game road trips, down from seven last year.
The Saints, Rams and Ravens will have those three-game journeys, but the Ravens
and Rams also have three-game homestands. In all David
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and Baltimore and Indianapolis have a bye in there, meaning neither club will
leave home for a month.

Also, no team plays a road game following a road Monday night match. That
occurred last year five times.

The playoffs begin with wild-card weekend on Jan. 5-6. The Super Bowl is Feb.
3 in Atlanta.

"I always look forward to this time of year, getting our players back in the
building, getting back to football, and then on top of that we get to see how
our schedule sets up and start our preparation," Chiefs coach Andy Reid said.
"We've got a lot of work to get done before Sept. 9. I'm excited to get started
and I know Chiefs Kingdom will be supporting us the entire way."